Too depressing to re-watch?

Meh. Reddit bros talk about this movie like it's something special but I've seen worse.

You may find this thread of interest.

They should try watching LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.

I remember people lauding Ellen Burstyn’s performance to the skies and when I finally saw RFAD I thought she was simply silly. (That Oscar belonged to Laura Linney!)

It depressed me horribly the first time I saw it. I wouldn't watch it again but it's a great movie. Ellen Burstyn broke my heart.

BLUE VELVET: one and done. (Can't bear to see Rossellini's humiliation another time).

Any Jake Gyllenhaal film post-2010.

It's depressing watching him trying to make any role in which he attempts to gain a solid straight/dude/bro/incel fanbase. (At least for me it's quite sad to look at, lol)

The Piano is depressing. A mute woman with a bratty daughter playing the piano in the mud and rain.

Requiem for a Dream has a bit more life to it.

It is bad, but I've seen worse.

Hell, Jennifer Connelly herself has been in an even more depressing movie: House of Sand and Fog.

Connelly should have been nominated for that, R9.

Mask

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

Once was enough for me, that's for sure. That movie is not one to watch if you're in a funk. I do remember they wanted to use that film for anti-drug messaging.

Sounded too bleak and by that time I was done with bleak.

I've seen way worse. Cannibal Holocaust--once was enough!

I said it in the other thread, Leaving Las Vegas (1995). It's a good movie I hated watching Cage destroy himself and Shue getting treated like shit by the entire world.

I loved that movie, R15 -- it broke my heart the whole way through.

I think it's a magnificent and startling film, beautifully filmed, and with music to match. But I've watched it in full 4 times at least and not slit my wrists or sunk into a depression. The memory of the film certainly stays with me, but it doesn't haunt me the way it does some viewers.

To suggest a brutal film that does haunt me, Amores Perros for example.

Lecy Goranson said people who talk to her about Boys Don’t Cry tend to describe it as an outstanding film they could never watch again. I tend to agree. The whole ensemble was brilliant though.

^^^Dyke Swank did not deserve the Oscar over "THE Annette Benning"^^^

Benning was GENIUS!!

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

On The Waterfront

OP three words for you. Ass to ass!!!

The Thing with two heads!!! My late husband Herb took me to see this at a drive-in! I had nightmares for weeks afterward!

Jacob's Ladder. Traumatizing, gritty, dark, sad yet beautiful. I wouldn't watch it again.

Requiem for a Dream is one of those films that change something in you. I have seen it twice, and it is one of the saddest films I have ever seen. Heartbraking.

Mary Poppins. Julie Andrews' most depressing movie.

I loved it when I saw it many years ago but can't bring myself to watch it again.

It's too pretty for ot's own good - at the time I described it as Wallpaper Magazine's Heroin Addiction issue.

City of Life and Death (nanjing massacre) Come And See (nazis in belarus)

I find Strozjek very depressing too.

Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar is the most depressing movie I"ve seen.

Two most devastating movies ever are Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Zero Day (not the recent one but the small film in early 2000s about a Columbine like shooting. Horrific. Took time to get over it. I couldn’t talk after it.

Oh and Dancer in the Dark. Bjork legit thinks they’re going to hang her at the end of the movie.

Thank you R33. Dancer In The Dark is about the only thing more depressing than Requiem For A Dream.

until I remember Pay It Forward

R15. The college boy who says, “I want to fuck her in the ass” was a former student of mine. I was so proud!

I've watched Dancer in the Dark a few times R33. I agree with you and the movie has a power. Don't forget it's a musical too. Probably one of the most unique movie musicals to date. The hanging scene you reference was much longer in the original cut if you can imagine.

I saw They Shoot Horses once, and I would never, ever think of watching it again.

What makes it so sad is (and I quote), "...the dance marathon contests depicted in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' were real events during the Great Depression era. These grueling competitions, where couples danced for weeks or even months, were a form of entertainment that drew large crowds. The movie accurately portrays the desperation and exploitation inherent in these marathons, where contestants often endured extreme physical and mental exhaustion for a chance at a cash prize and fleeting recognition."

It's a truly horrible movie, and don't watch it unless you want it to haunt you forever.

Wit

wont watch it again.

Pennies From Heaven don't know why it depressed the fuck out of me.

Blue Valentine. Beautiful film but broke my heart. Won't watch again.

Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream (both based on Hubert Selby, Jr. novels) - never again.

I absolutely loved I'm Still Here- Top 3 for 2024, but I would NEVER watch it again- Its just very sad- and for some reason. the last 15 minutes was hella depressing-

Highly recommended- but just once-

White Dog - another very bleak and disturbing film that comes to mind.

Missing (1982) with Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon.

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Depressing, no. Disturbing, yes. But it's mostly the music. If you can turn off the sound and watch with subtitles, I don't think it'll do much damage.

"Once Were Warriors" was the most depressing and distressing movie I've ever seen. I could only watch it once.

That's a good movie, r46. I like how it ends on the slightly optimistic note of the surviving family leaving the dad but I definitely wouldn't rewatch it.

Hereditary. Fantastic but depressing and traumatizing. Makes you question if humans have free will or if everything is predestined.

The scene with Jennifer Connolly on the table with the other woman - getting jeered at by the men and her spirit just crushing - that stuck in my head for years.

There's no softening anything in this film - you're just going to get beat up more and more watching it.

I respect it for what it is - and think it was a fantastic film - but I'm too traumatized to watch it again.

How Jennifer Connelly was not nominated (and did not outright WIN) for Requiem that year is a total mystery to me. She won the next year for “A Beautiful Mind” partly, I think, to make up for this snub.

All the characters really fucking “go through it” but I found her downfall the most tragic and haunting in the film.

Body of Evidence. So sad.

R50, it's the same thing with Naomi Watts, I have no idea how she wasn't even nominated for an Oscar for Mulholland Drive when her performance was the most acclaimed of that year.

I think it’s a great film, but for the faint of heart. I’m trying to think of what mood I would have to be in to seek it. Horace McVoy’s novel is excellent, too.